Special Privileges For Those Who Give Money to Cook County Democrats: Gov OKs liquor sales at West Side store owned by Powerful Ald. Burke ally

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation allowing Pete’s Fresh Market to continue selling beer, wine and spirits at its new West Side store, though a church next door to the grocery had objected to liquor sales there and urged him to veto the measure.

Quinn spokeswoman Katie Hickey said Quinn decided it’s “in the community’s best interest to sign the bill.”

Pete’s — which has made tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th), a top Quinn supporter — started selling liquor at its store at 2333 W. Madison in June under a “contingent” license granted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration. The license required Pete’s to get an exemption from an Illinois law that bans liquor sales within 100 feet of churches or schools — or lose its city liquor license.

Burke’s brother, state Rep. Daniel Burke, D-Chicago, helped push that exemption through the Legislature, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in July.

So selling liquor is so bad for society next to a church except when you make a campaign contribution to the right Cook County Democrats! For a view on how Alderman Burke runs Chicago click on this. For a background on Alderman Burke associating with the Chicago Mob click on this. After all, Alderman Burke understands a society based on special privileges is one that can "extort" campaign contributions. We warned , this is the type of society Barack Obama and many Democrats want to foist on Americans nationally.